I’m pretty much sure only free option for finding out what other people search for is Google Trends. It’s very valuable data that is hard to get, so the companies that offer it charge quite a lot for it.

Yeah in my project open registration is behind an option called yes_i_am_very_very_sure_i_want_an_open_registration_server_prone_to_abuse lol

Here are some of the things I self host that I haven’t seen mentioned:

• Continuwuity is a chat server that talks Matrix, so you can join the chat rooms of a lot of open source projects or make end to end encrypted private chats
• Forgejo is a self-hosted code forge (github alternative) - very useful
• FreshRSS is a good one if you like to follow blogs, newsletters or pretty much anything ‘news’
• Grafana plus VictoriaMetrics and/or Quickwit is very useful for keeping track of the health of all your services
• Homepage is a… homepage for all your services
• Stalwart gives you a mail server. Set it up for any other projects that need to send mail, or as a backup for your emails, contacts or calendars - it’s the easiest way to set that up self hosted. Making it suitable as your main email may need more effort (delivery).
• Related to Continuwuity / matrix, you can set up the Mautrix collection of bridges, which let you bridge Discord, WhatsApp, IRC, telegram, and more into your matrix account or chats seamlessly.
• LMS (lightweight Media Server, not to be confused with Logitech Media Server) is an alternative to Navidrome that I find works better with my library tagging and ListenBrainz
• Speakr - audio transcription with diarisation. Very useful if you like to record meetings.

My personal selfhosting repo is just about 2 years old with 750 commits now, and probably more than 60 containers running. It’s not because of one great effort or design or anything, just setting up a service or two when I find it interesting every few weeks, and trying to make all my setup consistent. Almost everything is deployed as a container run by Podman quadlets, files mounted in /var/opt, config etc copied into place by an ansible script. But not everything, sometimes getting it working was easier without the sensible or I needed to do some funny networking.

TLDR: Coming back again later, and making that easier.

You may also want to look into MASH: https://github.com/mother-of-all-self-hosting/mash-playbook

You might want to check out https://matrixrooms.info/, which is good for a search around. Some project communities also have offtopic rooms that are good to chat in. Even very small rooms can be very active.

Basically: record every song you listen to, and when you listen to it (plus some more metadata), and then add it to a giant public dataset. Open source software then uses that to make music recommendations based on your and other people’s listening, and to give you interesting stats about your listening.

The Matrix Foundation and Element/New Vector are different orgs, and it’s Element with the government contracts

Copying my post from up thread:

Delta chat is hilariously slow. It’s less of an instant messenger and moreover next business day messenger. That’s ignoring the problems you’ll have running it on your own infrastructure.

Delta chat is hilariously slow. It’s less of an instant messenger and moreover next business day messenger. That’s ignoring the problems you’ll have running it on your own infrastructure.

Stalwart recently released CalDAV & CardDAV support, and it’s what I use for mail. It’s pretty secure by default too.

Talon is closed source, What’s available on GitHub is the community command set - effectively just configuration

Here are some interesting feeds I follow, mostly tech-focused and quite Rust heavy:

• Alexis King’s Blog https://lexi-lambda.github.io/feeds/all.atom.xml
• Blog on Asahi Linux https://asahilinux.org/blog/index.xml
• brson https://brson.github.io/feed.xml
• dystroy https://dystroy.org/blog/atom.xml
• ecton https://ecton.dev/rss.xml
• fasterthanli.me https://fasterthanli.me/index.xml
• Faultlore https://faultlore.com/blah/rss.xml
• Graphite - Blog https://graphite.rs/blog/rss.xml
• Ink & Switch https://www.inkandswitch.com/index.xml
• Jade’s Website https://jade.ellis.link/blog/rss.xml
• Lord.io https://lord.io/feed.xml
• Mara’s Blog https://blog.m-ou.se/index.xml
• matklad https://matklad.github.io/feed.xml
• Raph Levien’s blog https://raphlinus.github.io/feed.xml
• Tulir Asokan https://mau.fi/blog/index.rss
• Xe Iaso’s blog https://xeiaso.net/blog.rss

Generated by opening an OPML export in firefox, running the following script and deleting a bunch of feeds:

 "- " + [...document.querySelectorAll("body > outline > outline")].map((f) => `[${f.getAttribute("text")}](${f.getAttribute("htmlUrl")}) \`${f.getAttribute("xmlUrl")}\``).join("\n- ")